Amenity Deck

The highly-programmed 17,000 sf Amenity Deck features a swimming pool with fountain jets, a fitness center with an outdoor exercise plaza, a DIY makers garage, and a tree-shaded deck with cafe seating and outdoor fires, set within a rich garden environment overlooking San Diego’s downtown skyline and bayfront.

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Pocket Park

Pocket Park’s restaurant deck and multi-use plaza will become active destinations within the surrounding neighborhood. The restaurant deck’s and communal tables will encourage indoor/outdoor dining and socialization in an informal beer garden context, while the tree-shaded plaza will host daily activities and a range of small performances and events. The plaza’s movable tables and chairs can be easily rearranged or removed to accommodate outdoor movies, music performances, weddings and various private events. A steel post and cable framework retains the bamboo green screen along the garage and driveway edges of the park and provides an armature for mounting temporary art exhibitions and the outdoor movie screens. Interpretive stormwater gardens treat runoff and provide desired separation between the private restaurant deck and the public plaza. Sculptural seating terraces frame the south edge of the plaza, providing informal amphitheater seating and performance platforms for plaza activities. Dimmable catenary lights allow nighttime atmosphere to be customized for specific activities.

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Pocket Park

Pocket Park’s restaurant deck and multi-use plaza will become active destinations within the surrounding neighborhood. The restaurant deck’s and communal tables will encourage indoor/outdoor dining and socialization in an informal beer garden context, while the tree-shaded plaza will host daily activities and a range of small performances and events. The plaza’s movable tables and chairs can be easily rearranged or removed to accommodate outdoor movies, music performances, weddings and various private events. A steel post and cable framework retains the bamboo green screen along the garage and driveway edges of the park and provides an armature for mounting temporary art exhibitions and the outdoor movie screens. Interpretive stormwater gardens treat runoff and provide desired separation between the private restaurant deck and the public plaza. Sculptural seating terraces frame the south edge of the plaza, providing informal amphitheater seating and performance platforms for plaza activities. Dimmable catenary lights allow nighttime atmosphere to be customized for specific activities.

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Petersen Studio is currently working with architect Carrier Johnson to finalize Construction Documents for the high-profile Streetlights Residential Tower project in downtown San Diego’s Makers Quarter District. Architectural scope includes a 30-story residential tower, a 7-story residential mid-rise, and a 10-story garage, activated by ground-level restaurant and retail space.

Two small public/private parks and streetscapes improvements will provide a range of activities and amenities for residents of the revitalizing district. On-structure landscapes include a 17K SF Amenity Deck on the roof of the garage, a 5K SF garden terrace, and a 6-story green wall wrapping the south and west faces of the garage. The programmed Amenity Deck features a swimming pool with fountain jets, a fitness center with an outdoor exercise plaza, a DIY makers garage, café seating, and an outdoor bar with panoramic views of the downtown skyline. Construction is scheduled to begin 2018.

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Streetlights Makers Quarter

Petersen Studio is completing Construction Documents for the Streetlights High-rise Residential Development in downtown San Diego’s Makers Quarter District. Working in collaboration with lead architect Carrier Johnson, Petersen Studio is designing two ground-level pocket parks, perimeter streetscapes, private garden terraces, a 6-story green wall, and a 17,000 square foot Amenity Deck on the roof of the garage. The highly-programmed Amenity Deck features a swimming pool with fountain jets, a fitness center with an outdoor exercise plaza, a DIY makers garage, and a tree-shaded deck with cafe seating and outdoor fires, set within a rich garden environment overlooking San Diego’s downtown skyline and bayfront.

The development includes a 30-story residential tower, a 7-story residential mid-rise, a 10-story garage, and ground-level restaurant and retail spaces that work in synergy with parks and streetscapes to enrich and activate surrounding districts. Construction is scheduled to begin summer 2016.